"Oh, frick it.." Mouth was stuck firmly into the guitar, having fallen over and sat on it with quite a lot of force.
"Are you okay?" Carrie asked immediately, her face full of concern.
"Yeah, other than the fact that my ass is crammed through a guitar. Great finale, huh?" he smiled his mischeivous grin.
"Here.." Carrie got up and extended a hand to Mouth. He took it, and she helped him up.
"God, that's gonna hurt in the morning." Mouth complained, wincing.
"You know my dad's going to kill me if he finds out about the guitar... that was his when he was a kid!" Mikey sounded worried.
"Not my problem." Mouth bounced slightly, still grasping Carrie's hand.
"Come on." Lindsey got up and walked around the attic, closely inspecting the floor boards.
Mikey followed her. "What are you doing?" He looked confused.
"Watch, you'll see." Lindsey replied simply, tapping different spots of the floor with her foot.
"Okay.." Mikey said slowly.
"I fear for her sanity." Mouth said to Carrie seriously. "She could be a dangerous psychotic killer!"
"Just like Mort!" Carrie murmured.
"What?" Mouth cocked his head.
"Dammit.. nevermind." Carrie sighed. We have to quit making references to new, nonexistant movies! First Pirates, now Secret Window.
"Bingo!" Lindsey finally exclaimed, having found a floor board that was somewhat loosened. She got down on her knees and carefully pried it up with a metal bar that she'd found and was using in place of a crowbar.
"Genius." said Mikey, grinning.
"EVIL, LOONEY genius."Lindsey corrected him. "Where's the guitar?"
Mikey looked around, then got up and retrieved it. "Here." he handed it to her.
Lindsey mentally measured the guitar, and decided she'd need to pry up another floor board, so she took up the metal bar again and got to work. Soon enough the hole seemed big enough for the broken guitar, so she took it and put it in the floor.
"Rest in pieces, Nemmy!" Mouth said solemnly, standing beside Lindsey and tossing a fake flower he'd salvaged somewhere on the battered guitar. "We hardly knew him, and will always miss him!" He let out a dramatic sniff.
"... right." Lindsey looked at him oddly, laughed, and replaced the floor boards.
"Nemmy?" Carrie asked Mouth.
"I take great care in naming musical instruments. The voices inside my head tell me what to name them." Mouth said seriously, smiling slightly, and -still- holding Carrie's hand.
"Wow!" Carrie replied. "That's Mouth for you, folks.. special in the head!" She tapped the side of her head suggestively.
"You're just jealous 'cause the voices don't talk to you!" Mouth said defensively.
"Yeah, sure, we'll go with that." Carrie chuckled.
"Thanks.. that was really great of you." Mikey said to Lindsey.
"No problem, I just didn't want you to get in trouble for it.. it was kind of my fault, because I told Mouth to sing I Feel Pretty, and he did, and ended up ruining the guitar..." Lindsey trailed off.
"It wasn't your fault.. Mouth can be just as klutzy as Chunk sometimes." Mikey reassured her.
Chunk chose that moment to trip over a rickety wooden chair and fall through a painting, badly wrecking both.
"... or, actually, not." Mikey corrected himself. "DEFINITELY not."
Lindsey looked at Mikey, who grinned sheepishly, and she immediately turned red.
No blushing, damn you! she scolded herself.
"I bet Chunk could get into the Guinness Book of World Records for breaking the most different things simultaneously, or something along those lines." Lindsey laughed slightly.
"Wow..." Mikey started laughing too. "That's possible?"
"Sure it is!" Mouth joined in. "We should do that! We seriously should! Get El Chunko into the ol' book of records!"
Chunk came up behind Mouth. "Gee, really?"
Mikey looked exasperated. "Chunk. He wants to get you in for being the WORLD'S BIGGEST KLUTZ. He WILL make fun of you." he said slowly, as though speaking to a small child.
Chunk's face fell momentarily, but he soon brightened again. "Yeah, but, I'd get my name in the book! And maybe even in the newspaper! And I'd be an ICON!" he said dramatically.
"Yeah. Sure. You'll be an icon for being the world's biggest klutz!" Mouth snickered, clearly amused.
"... I didn't think you guys would take this seriously!" Lindsey said.
"Well, why not?" Mouth reasoned. "We could seriously do this. It would be amusing as shit!"
"What is with the phrase, 'amusing as shit'?" Carrie said randomly. "Really.. how amusing is shit, anyway? Not very amusing, right?"
Mouth and Carrie exchanged a look, and so did Mikey and Carrie, and all four of them burst out laughing. Data and Chunk didn't, however, since they were too busy planning how Chunk could simultaneously break lots and lots of objects.
"Yeah... we could, like, set up a domino effect here!" Chunk was saying excitedly. "Set up a CRAPLOAD of really breakable things, one after another, I bump into one, and they ALL break. And we catch it all on video." he paused for breath.
"Where are we going to get the breakable things?" Data's brow was furrowed in thought.
"Maybe Mikey could lend us some stuff..." Chunk said, looking around for him. "Oh, MIKEY.."
"Whatever it is, NO!" Mikey yelled back immediately.
"Hey, Chunko.. I'll give you enough stuff to get in the book of records on one condition." Mouth cut in quickly.
"What's that?" Chunk said suspiciously.
"Do the truffle shuffle."
"Oh, sure!" Chunk said eagerly. "That's a piece of cake.."
"... every day, in front of us, for the next five months." Mouth finished, smirking evilly.
"Wow.. that's evil genius at work.." Carrie laughed, looking admiringly at Mouth.
"That's what I do." he smiled at her, and combed his hair carefully. "So, Chunk?"
"Come on..." he whined.
"Do it!"
"Come on..."
"Do you want the stuff or not?" Mouth demanded.
"Fine..." Chunk pouted.
"Sweet!"
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A/N: Ok, I know lately this hasn't had much of anything to do with the movie, and it was originally supposed to be the girls tagging along for the Goonie adventure.. so I dunno, I might postpone the hunting-for-one-eyed-willie stuff until later chapters, or maybe even skip it. What do you think? Let me know! Please!
HellGirlAngel: Thanks for reviewing, and glad you liked the chapter!